Friedrich Bohl (Chancellor)

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Friedrich Bohl , also Bohle or Bohlen (born May 17, 1601 in Mitau , Courland , † 1658 ), was a Swedish diplomat and Chancellor of Swedish Pomerania .

Life

The son of the ducal-Pomeranian court tailor and Köslin citizen Bohl was born in Mitau, where the family followed Duke Friedrich von Kurland and Semgallen in 1600 , but who returned to Köslin because of the Polish-Swedish War . After attending school in Köslin under the rector Jacobus Volsius, at the age of 18 he went to the education department in Stettin , then on to Leiden and finally came to the University of Frankfurt (Oder) to study law. There he obtained his doctorate and permission to hold legal lectures.

In 1629 he became secretary of the Polish ambassador Martin Rubaken, with whom he traveled to Prague and Vienna. Because of his demonstrated skill he was sent to Stettin in the same year and to Vienna and Regensburg in 1630. He became secret secretary in Stettin in 1631 and was promoted to archivist and feudal secretary in the same year. In 1640 he became a councilor in the Swedish government in Pomerania .

On December 10, 1646 he was raised to the Swedish nobility while retaining his name and enfeoffed with the Pritzlow estate. In 1648 he was the Swedish governor in Stettin. In 1652 he was ambassador for Swedish Pomerania to the Reichstag in Regensburg . In 1654 he was Chancellor of the Swedish Pomeranian Government. In 1656 he was sent to Leipzig, together with Hofrat Bogislaus Philipp Michaelis, to the district council of the Upper Saxon Empire .

family

Friedrich Bohl married Elisabeth Starcke in 1630 (born November 29, 1619 in Köslin, † August 10, 1668 in Stettin, buried in St. Mary's Church ), daughter of the Köslin citizen Steffan Starcke and Anna Micraelius. The two had four sons and three daughters. The eldest son Constantin (1632–1675) was court judge at the Pomeranian court court.

Fonts

  • Description of the border between Pomerania and Meklenburg . Manuscript 1650.

literature

  • Gabriel Anrep : Svenska Adelns Ättar-Taflor. Part 1, Norstedt & Söner, Stockholm 1858, p. 240 ( Google books ).
  • Christian Wilhelm Haken : An attempt at a diplomatic history of the Royal Prussian Immediate and former Prince-Episcopal residence town of Cößlin since it was established five hundred years ago . Lemgo 1765, p. 247f. ( Google Books ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amandus Karl Vanselow : Scholars Pomerania or alphabetical index of some male and female scholars who were bored in Pomerania according to their most remarkable circumstances and written writings. Stargard 1728, p. 72 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Bohl, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bohl, Fredric; Bohle, Friedrich; Bohlen, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish diplomat, Chancellor of Swedish Pomerania
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1601
PLACE OF BIRTH Mitau , Courland
DATE OF DEATH 1658